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gene chippers [1]

Robots that are fed thousands of seeds to report each seed's genetic information for plant breeding purposes.  The robots chip off a part of each seed (a part that will not kill the seed), extract DNA from the plant material, perform DNA analysis, and report the results via a database.


Source URL (modified on December 6, 2016): https://discoveringthegenome.org/genomics-glossary/gene-chippers

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